Work alone is noble.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit.

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what's the good of thorns?

I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.

I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

I hate having my picture taken.